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Demetria L. Lucas & Studio71

It's a kiki for the culture!!! Journalist and author Demetria L. Lucas brings the group chat to life on her weekly podcast where she-- and the occasional guest-- muses on pop culture shenanigans, global galavanting, political insanity, everything worth watching on any size screen, her favorite reads, dating/marriage/divorce chronicles and whatever else has captivated the zeitgeist AND her inner circle.
Ratchet & Respectable is published EVERY WEDNESDAY. Listen wherever popular podcasts are heard. #ratchetandrespectable
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Ratchet & Respectable

Demi heads to Houston and New Orleans; Amy DuBois Barnett Rules the World; Don Lemon “on notice” for a protest he didn’t lead; chaos at New Birth; Don Lemon vs Nicki Minaj; The Nobel Peace Prize drama; World Leaders are acting like Real Housewives. 

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Rich Aunties, Fake News and Broke (?) Rappers! Oh My!

Teyana Taylor goes A-List; NAACP Awards are so necessary; Druskii clowns the Black Church; Venezuelan oil; Fed Chair Jerome Powell under criminal investigation; the murder.

(and gas lighting) of Renee Good; The Clintons strike back. 

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Sinners

Happy New Year!; Penny update; colonizing Venezuela; Richard Smallwood and Isaiah Whitlock Jr. become ancestors; The Critic’s Choice Awards don't do right by Sinners; Peak Dave Chappelle; Nicki Minaj goes full MAGA; Cardi defends Steffon Diggs; Will Smith, Drake, Tyler Perry AND Donnie McClurkin all get sued; Dr. Karri, Dr. Cheyenne Bryant and NYC’s new First Lady Rama Dawaji catch hell for their fashion choices (sort of). 

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Two Dollar Wh*r*

Another Sheronne Moore update; In defense (again) of Blu Ivy, who is not your daughter; Russell Simmons tries to tussle with Kimora (again) leading up to their lawsuit; Vanity Fair has receipts; the grifting widow can’t pull a tv audience; 4547 (incorrectly) blames politics for a popular director’s murder. 

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Receipts

Demi separates fact from fiction in the WTF?! Saga of the former-- as of Wednesday-- head football coach of the University of Michigan, who was fired from his multi-million dollar job for having an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate. We haven't seen a crash out like this since OJ.

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Crash Out: The Sherrone Moore Story

The Blacks head to Art Basel; Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett officially aims for the Senate; “Sinners” racks up hella noms for Golden Globes and Critic’s Choice awards; Teyana Taylor’s glow up; Bel-Air says goodbye for good (with major guest stars); revisiting that damn Diddy documentary (I have more thoughts).

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Let God Sort Em Out

Demi recaps (and recoils at) Netflix’s new 4-part documentary about the fallen and federally-convicted music mogul. 

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Diddy: The Reckoning

Demi in South Africa; Debbie Allen earns an Oscar; a review of “Being Eddie” and the final season of “Bel Air”; Chadwick Boseman’s perfect widow; charges dropped against NY AG Letitia James; RFK Jr’s filthy poetry during his digital affair; Felching defined; Pusha T embarrasses his pregnant wife; Morehouse willfully chooses to protect an abuser. 

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Men Will Embarrass You

The Epstein emails precede the Epstein files; Quiet Piggy!!; Marjorie Taylor Greene pretends to be a normal; Nicki Minaj goes MAGA (; DEI hire Pharrell Williams doesn’t support DEI; Jasmine Crockett needs more security; Offset terrorizes Cardi; Patrick Beverly assaults his 15 year old sister. Allegedly; Michelle Obama and India Arie attempt to explain natural hair. 

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Bubba, BJs, and Not Bill Clinton

Reasonable Doubt gets another season; All’s Fair is a hate-watch fave; A Different World gets a reboot; Bel-Air is coming back; Michelle Obama’s "The Look"; Outkast in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; Abby Phillips’s Jesse Jackson book; the influencer in North Carolina who broke up her husband’s cousin’s marriage and married the cousin, and the cousin’s wife who was once the influencer’s bestie sued her over it— and won!

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Rightful Indignation

The Blackest Super Bowl ever; Reminder: Serena MF Williams is from Compton; Stephen A. Smith will say any dumb thing for attention; a 9 hour Prince documentary that we’ll never see; Mayor Eric Adams trades NYC for his freedom; Demi chats with Harlem creator Tracy Oliver about alternate endings for the final season, her secret sauce for creating great TV (and film) and what’s next for Black stories in anti-DEI in Hollywood.

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